why bother?

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They would almost certainly call him Prime Minister Ignatz, or Ignats, and he would almost certainly deserve it, no?

And when it comes to jackass political acumen, we do not have the corner on that either.

Boredom is the Conservatives ally, nobody is going to pick change when they see more of the same. The Liberals need a spark, and that can come with a outside the box policy, an edgy ad that challenges conventions, unique ways to connect.

I will be looking for creativity, a sense that the brand is being reinvigorated using new techniques and strategies. I want to see the Liberals use social media provocatively, I'd love to see Ignatieff actually use twitter, on the road, beyond stale messaging for example. I want to see ads that don't resemble every ad I've ever seen for the last decade, the feel, the message, the music, the blah! Not reckless, but modern, push the boundaries, do things that make people actually stop for a second and say "I like that, that's different". If left to established templates, standard operating procedures, I think we will fail to capture people's imaginations, and given the odds at hand, that equates to a less than optimal result.

Now, there's the measure of a true prime minister.

Not.

I have waited some hours to see if my declaration of media preposterousness snapped any of them out of their tizzies, and the answer to that is a big fat nope.

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extraordinarily alone

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What on earth is a porcupine doing up a tree?

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fascism seeeeeriously sucks

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They are NOT going to take the intertubes away. They're going to use it on us.

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new theory on why mister north has stifled himself on the matter of my tub

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He's joined the financial elite and wishes to forget his radical past.

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In case of insomnia, an old movie involving Canadians....

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truth is beautiful

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Someone else is awfully pissed off about your ingratitude:

What the Wiki-Saga Teaches Us
2 December 2010
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

The reaction to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange tells us all we need to know about the total corruption of our “modern” world, which in fact is a throwback to the Dark Ages.

Some member of the United States government released to WikiLeaks the documents that are now controversial. The documents are controversial, because they are official US documents and show all too clearly that the US government is a duplicitous entity whose raison d’etre is to control every other government.

The media, not merely in the US but also throughout the English speaking world and Europe, has shown its hostility to WikiLeaks. The reason is obvious. WikiLeaks reveals truth, while the media covers up for the US government and its puppet states.

Why would anyone with a lick of sense read the media when they can read original material from WikiLeaks? The average american reporter and editor must be very angry that his/her own cowardice is so clearly exposed by Julian Assange. The american media is a whore, whereas the courageous blood of warriors runs through WikiLeaks’ veins.

Just as american politicians want Bradley Manning executed because he revealed crimes of the US government, they want Julian Assange executed. In the past few days the more notorious of the dumbshits that sit in the US Congress have denounced Assange as a “traitor to america.” What total ignorance. Assange is an Australian, not an american citizen. To be a traitor to america, one has to be of the nationality. An Australian cannot be a traitor to america any more than an american can be a traitor to Australia. But don’t expect the morons who represent the lobbyists to know this much.

Mike Huckabee, the redneck baptist preacher who was governor of arkansas and, to america’s already overwhelming shame, was third runner up to the Republican presidential nomination, has called for Assange’s execution. So here we have a “man of God” calling for the US government to murder an Australian citizen. And americans wonder why the rest of the world hates their guts.

The material leaked from the US government to WikiLeaks shows that the US government is an extremely disreputable gang of gangsters. The US government was able to get British prime minister Brown to “fix” the official Chilcot Investigation into how former prime minister Tony Blair manipulated and lied the British government into being mercenaries for the US invasion of Iraq. One of the “diplomatic” cables released has UK Defense Ministry official Jon Day promising the United States government that prime minister Brown’s government has “put measures in place to protect your interests.”

Other cables show the US government threatening Spanish prime minister Zapatero, ordering him to stop his criticisms of the Iraq war or else. I mean, really, how dare these foreign governments to think that they are sovereign.

Not only foreign governments are under the US thumb. So is Amazon.com. Joe Lieberman from Connecticut, who is Israel’s most influential senator in the US Senate, delivered sufficiently credible threats to Amazon to cause the company to oust WikiLeaks content from their hosting service.

So there you have it. On the one hand the US government and the prostitute american media declare that there is nothing new in the hundreds of thousands of documents, yet on the other hand both pull out all stops to shut down WikiLeaks and its founder. Obviously, despite the US government’s denials, the documents are extremely damaging. The documents show that the US government is not what it pretends to be.

Assange is in hiding. He fears CIA and Mossad assassination, and to add to his troubles the government of Sweden has changed its mind, perhaps as a result of american persuasion and money, about sex charges that the Swedish government had previously dismissed for lack of credibility. If reports are correct, two women, who possibly could be CIA or Mossad assets, have brought sex charges against Assange. One claims that she was having consensual sexual intercourse with him, but that he didn’t stop when she asked him to when the condom broke.

Think about this for a minute. Other than male porn stars who are bored with it all, how many men can stop at the point of orgasm or when approaching orgasm? How does anyone know where Assange was in the process of the sex act?

Would a real government that had any integrity and commitment to truth try to blacken the name of the prime truth teller of our time on the basis of such flimsy charges?

Obviously, Sweden has become another two-bit punk puppet government of the US.

The US government has got away with telling lies for so long that it no longer hesitates to lie in the most blatant way. WikiLeaks released a US classified document signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that explicitly orders US diplomats to spy on UN Security council officials and on the Secretary General of the United Nations. The cable is now in the public record. No one challenges its authenticity. Yet, today the Obama regime, precisely White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, declared that Hillary had never ordered or even asked US officials to spy on UN officials.

As Antiwar.com asked: Who do you believe, the printed word with Hillary’s signature or the White House?

Anyone who believes the US government about anything is the epitome of gullibility.

Oh, at least.

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SING IT, PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS!

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O Canada!

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my dreams of sanity in canada are pau

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I have been pining for the bliss of my barn loft and clawfoot tub in the wilds of Manitoba with Mister North. The tub still moots every other consideration, but my dream of Canadian bliss, of Canadian sanity, are unable to overcome the hard reality of the truth. Being a truth junkie has its desperately hard moments, but, after all, one can NEVER live a true life without it.

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i am crestfallen

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This ruins my romantic notions all to smithereens....

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and scrambling for jobs as police

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The handwriting is on the wall... blinking neon.

And it's all happening, all over the world, under ONE authority. They don't care about your stinking nations.

STAND UP!

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canadians are not exempt

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I wish it were otherwise, but maybe we can rely on their help when/if we ever stand up.

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here we go again

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It's not only California. Russia is suffering too.

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And British Columbia. Fuck.

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try to etch out the time to watch today's democracy now!

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Lots of detail about Amy's detention at the Canadian border, and lots of information about what the WTO is up to, and lots of information about effective protest. This is all stuff we really need to be thinking about. Especially striking to me was the reminder that that huge protest of the WTO in Seattle ten years ago, the one where people stopped everything they were doing and held the WTO conference from meeting for a day, the one where the unions shut down all West Coast ports, that sudden tsunami of people demanding an end to WTO perfidies, had no affect on its objects. It needs to keep inspiring us so we can become many enough to make it stop.

I mean, I really wonder sometimes if people let it sink in just to what extent we are ignored. The best we ever get is lip service... if that... and they unerringly go right on ahead and do what they were going to do all along.

This really has to stop.

one nation, under canada

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